New York Drama Critics' Circle

Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005), an acclaimed 20th century American play and screen writer, most famous for conflicting guilt and hope within characters in his plays. Miller, born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, New York City into a family of immigrants from Polish and Jewish descents, Miller had spent most of his youth surrounded by literature. With his mother, which whom he was very close to, being an educator and a novel enthusiast. After graduating high school Miller began working to save up and attend the University of Michigan. Once there, Miller majored in journalism and soon after wrote his first play ‘No Villain’. From there Miller received many awards and began to take interest into playwriting. Miller then switched his major and…

broadcast political news. The television helped to bring the tragic events of the assassination of John F. Kennedy to every household in America. In 1976 Leo Braudy published the book The World in a Frame: What we see in films, a book on the history of American films from 1930 to 1970. A popular book that started Braudy’s reputation for his knowledge of the popular culture, Hollywood Cinema, and and American zeitgeist of the 1950’s. "An exciting, entertaining exploration of films.... [Braudy]…

popular 1924 musical, and the next year she played in Rhapsody in Black. In 1933 She acted with Marilyn Miller in Irving Berlin’s musical As Thousands Cheer, her first show without an all black cast. Her rendition of “Heat Wave” in that show linked the song to her. While being considered one of the greatest blues singers, Waters also performed and recorded with such jazz greats as Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington . Several songwriters wrote songs especially for her, and she was identified with…

for a Barbarian Reed Pipe," schooling becomes a process of identity formation, an experience of fighting for individual identity and facing the pressure to assimilate. At the American school, Kingston and other Chinese-Americans play silent roles, trying desperately to not be called out for their lack of English skills. In an intense scene, Kingston tries to get another Chinese girl to open up. She describes the hatred she felt for the other Chinese girl who refused to speak and how she…

Ruisha Yang The Woman Warrior A novel can be considered as a form of art while it imitates our internal life and experiences in the world or as a crazy telescope that allows us to explore the life of minds. However, the plot is the structure of a novel. As Culler implies, “Aristotle says that plot is the most basic feature of narrative, that good stories must have a beginning, middle, and end, that they gave pleasure because of the rhythm of their ordering...Essentially, though, a plot requires…

In the memoir The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston writes about her experiences as a Chinese American growing up in the United States. Although the value of women differ in China and America, they are still seen as inferior in both counties. Kingston shows her enmity toward the way females are viewed in Chinese culture through the use of talk stories, comparison, and personal experiences. Kingston incorporates the use of talk-stories into her writing as a technique to show how society views…

because of all the stories Kingston 's mother told her. All of the stories taught her a lesson which was either something she shouldn 't do or should do. Kingston got to a point where she didn 't care. She breaks out of the silence and reinterpreted all the stories her mother told her when she was younger and even the ones she was told to never mention for example the story No Name Woman. Liping Zhang quotes ”Through blending Chinese women’s stories into her consciousness and the consciousness…

This essay is about the Nickel and Dimed book that was written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Here is a quote found from the book, “Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.” Nickel and Dimed was published in May 2001. The following is cited after this paragraph, “Barbara has written many other books that have awards. She is the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller…

the strength of words. She states that “the reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the word” (53). Kingston does a great job present her cultural experiences and thoughts through her use of standard strategies and language. When Kingston finally confesses to her mother in the last chapter, the audience is able to sympathize with her break through. Kingston states “I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of mouth to cover the forest and sidewalks. Give me…

Kingston introduces the last talk story by writing “here is a story my mother told me, not when I was young, but recently, when I told her I also talk story,” (206). The introduction Kingston gives to her final talk story is especially important because Kingston is publically acknowledging that the talk stories Brave Orchid has told her still play an influential role in her life. The talk story centers around Ts’ai Ya’s abduction by barbiarons. Kingston utilizes the talk story to primarily focus…